This will be a kickoff event for the upcoming issue of Carceral Notebooks, an independently published academic journal that critically explores contemporary culture and society through the lens of art, philosophy, social science, and law. Focusing on the theme of marriage and family, the issue will address topics like heterosexual opposition to marriage, homosexual opposition to marriage, “going solo,” alternatives forms of family, varieties of kinship, polymorphous perverse models for relationships, serial monogamy, etc.

 

The issue will be released as an online journal in late June to coincide with the Supreme Court Decision on same-sex marriage. The issue is designed to break open that conversation by being intentionally provocative across disciplines and through a wide variety of artistic practices. In addition to the publication, the editors are curating a series of events.